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Oak Hill Commissioner Austin McMullen recounts a raucous Commissioners meeting in the City Of Oak Hill last night:

Too bad it hasn't "sparked concern" among members of Congress and city officials.

I don't mean to denigrate Kay Peabody's effort here, but this is our answer for homeless families?

This is the best we can do? Put them in a church for a week at a time?

I hope someone will tell me just exactly what this is supposed to do for the family, besides taking them off the street for a few nights?

Ken Whitehouse has been doing a bit of front and follow on a story we’ve been following here at the V-Squared.

Ken Whitehouse reveals that Oak Hill City Manager has been removed from the Davidson County Voter rolls pending a decision by the Tennessee Division of Elections.

Some people feel I have been too hard on Rob Briley. Let me be clear. I wish him well in his recovery. As others have written "In the theater of open political warfare, it’s the ideas I want to defeat, not the person."

I agree.

Often it isn't prison that is so bad, its what happens after someone is released and must try to survive with the stigma of a felony conviction on their record for the rest of their lives.

It's damned near impossible to make it with that jacket attached to you.....

Millions in the Slammer: We Must Reverse America's Zeal to Incarcerate

It would seem that Say Uncle’s concerns about a new gun law taking effect in January may be

There is a smattering of new laws going into effect in Tennessee come January 1, 2008. Always the most interesting to me, considering what I do on a daily basis, are the new criminal statutes. The Crooks with Guns law, as it has been entitled, drastically increases the punishments for gun related crimes associated with the commission of certain enumerated “dangerous felonies”.